Cyberpunk 2077

The most glaring thing if the performance of this game. On a Ryzen 5 3600, and a GTX 1070, you cannot play this game on any setting with a reliable 60fps. I have friends with 3080s and the newest CPUs who cannot reliably maintain over 60fps. Maybe those things (so it's said) get fixed in a year's time, so maybe you just come back to it then? Nop The game's core has a weird, jarring, mixture of mechanics. The clean stealth kills you can achieve don't sit right when you're trying to play some kind of aggressive gunslinger, where dying can happen in as little as 3 hits, but enemies have RPG-style health bars. I continue to play this game as with a knife (not specced into Reflex, which Blades is a derivative stat of, if you're familiar!), and one shot every enemy outside bosses. You crit thousands of damage to their head, and it's impossible to miss with a melee weapon! AI in this game is minimal if not existant. They will hide behind cover, facing away from you, if approached. There is no need to explore the other mechanics. I tried crafting, but to craft you have to either buy or dismantle components from stuff you pick up. So why not just use the stuff you pick up? I don't have an answer. It's too hard to craft the best gear, and the game provides no challenge on the hardest difficulty. Perhaps this game's one saving grace is its writing. Again, like the gameplay, it's a jarring mix. You play a character, you have no real choice. No matter your background, which only offers additional text lines (not choices). Some of the side quests are compelling stories, and this is about the only thing keeping me going. The majority of the writing is, as an article put it well, 'Dad Rock'. The game isn't very 'punk' at all, with every character being a classic stereotype. It's the 'honorable' Japanese, the voodoo caribbeans, the overly patriot Americans... It's an easy play (literally and figuratively) if you get it, but you won't get anything great.

I just asked for a refund. I had a lot of faith in CDPR but this game is a joke. The state this game was released on is an insult to gamers.

The base game is good, but it is plagued with bugs and half/not functioning systems. I'd advise against getting this game right now and just wait for all the fixes to come in.

CDPR Delayed the game several time to as I quote "make the game perfect" oh boy... I waited for this game since it was announced and was happy that they decided to delay it to make it a good game that I would enjoy but sadly this game is far from perfect maybe it´s even far from being a good game. The game is riddled with bugs and glitches, the A.I is some of the worst I´ve ever seen. The game feels like a open beta and not finished at all. This reminds me alot to the No Mens Sky release, promised so much but in the end we just go a beta version for 60€. I´m realy dissapointed and I´m going to refund this game until CDPR will patch the game and work on the A.I. Guess I have to wait another year for this game to be good..

At the time of writing this review, I have played about 11 hours. Not much, but enough to see that the game really isn't at all what it was said (read: marketed) to be, but something more simple. The world itself is beautiul representation of futuristic megacity, but it really lacks depth. Every mission seems prescripted and you as a player have little to none choice. The game gives the player a illusion of choice, but in the end the result is always the same. Need to admit, that I was looking for Witcher 3 level of meaningness, but it just isn't the case here. The game plays fine, and I have not met any game breaking bugs, illusion and immersive breaking yes, but the game hasn't crashed on me once. If you are looking borderlands type of shooter based in future metropolis, this really is a game for you. Otherwise, wait. The game might be good in six months or two years, who knows?